Good Morning Kids, or whatever time you are in.
This is time for Itachi class.
What is the lesson Itachi wants to teach you?
I'm gonna tell you.
First of, the lesson can't be applied to the real world, genocide is never tolerable.
(If you didn't know that, there you go.)
But instead we are not gonna focus on the practicality of Itachi but the idea behind all the evil.
BECAUSE
Even if something is bad, the idea behind it can be a good one.
That's why people say an idea is bad when someone does something bad in the name of it, but then they can't destroy the idea because the it pops up as something good instead.
Cus the practicality can be bad, but the ideas behind them can be good.
What was the idea behind Itachi?
Or any other type of character in the same vein? Adrian Vieidt? Ra's Al Ghul played by Liam Neeson?
What can they teach us?
I think this.
Imagine a question you need to answer.
The question will determine the leadership, the future of an entire group of people.
Of an entire society.
It's the basics of how people should live and you only have two options.
The first person, played by Madara Uchiha in this case.
He says this:
(Pretend)
Weak people are ugly, the reason is that whoever is the most powerful should rule, because nobody can touch him and then he has the power to protect everybody he loves. If you are weak you can't say anything.
HOWEVER
This leads into organized crime and identity politics.
Why?
Because it's no longer tolerable to have different opinions or to back down when you have done something wrong.
Everybody has to have the same nice opinion or else you are done for.
People who doesn't share the same opnion are bullied as if by a mob until you break.
It's a nice concept to protect the ones close to you, the ones you love, like your brothers and sisters, fathers and grandfathers.
And to kill everyone who wants to do them harm.
And with power you can do that.
But this means everybody in power has the same opinion, and you will not back down when you are wrong and you will never learn to tolerate other opinions.
If someone mocks you or if someone says something funny you can't handle tolerate that, instead of living with the shame or accepting jail or whatever happens when you are exposed as a scumbag.
You can't tolerate that because it's all about groups of people, this group wins or that group wins survivla of the fittest etc.
What was the ultimate goal of the warring states era?
"To wipe out every enemy there is" or something like that, which is basically anyone not with us, cus the only people you can trust are the ones with you.
And tha'ts anarchy, that's kindness, where everything is permitted and tolerated but at the same time anything can be punishable by death.
Everything falls a part because nobody things of the ends just the means.
The other voice, (pretending to be Hashirama).
Says this:
You sacrifice being kind to your brothers and sister.
BUT you also you can have liberties that would otherwise be impossible.
Instead of living in a world of chaos, you live in a world where people can go to schools, have careers and try other things etc instead of always having to watch your back.
You don't tolerate, people who break rules.
The opposite of anarchy, but this is something other people can get behind. You don't tolerate stuff people can agree on is bad. This is cruel and harsh but leads to happiness and prosperity. and stuff.
With these examples, most people would choose option 2 at least I think so.
Maybe if you fit in better with option one then that's what you want but whatever.
Itachi wanted his brother to live in world number 2.
And he accepted the shame and punishment, and he stood up against his family instead of just following the mob.
The lesson is that Itachi was a traitor, maybe even a coward, fear of war etc, but he was an individual, not a clan member, he might as well have been a Senju because he adopted Hashiramas beliefs, and even though he did a genocide of a discrimianted group of people, this is just the false image he had.
Because he thought of the ends and not the means. The bigger picture.
He was in that classroom and he chose Hashirama isntead of Madara as leader.
So the village was created, and people could enjoy liberties.
Instead of overthrowing the power llving by terrorizing others until someone else gets more powerful and overthrows you.
I rest my case.
